Chapter 277: Newt's Gift (Edited)

When he heard Tom say that, Newt understood. Although in recent years it had been rare to encounter fans of his books, it hadn't been unheard of before.

"Mr. Scamander, your..." Hermione also recovered from the shock, she wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything because she was too excited. She had usually thought about what questions to ask authors of textbooks, but once she met them in person, all those prepared questions were left behind and her mind went blank.

"Calm down, Miss Granger," Newt said with outstretched hands, gesturing for Hermione to calm down. "We'll have plenty of time to talk in the near future... that's not what we're discussing today. It was Dumbledore who summoned me..."

To deal with the Trackers, Dumbledore had not only called upon the alchemical master Nicolas Flamel, who hadn't appeared in nearly a century, but also Newt, who had been retired for decades.

The last time Newt was called, it was to deal with a three-headed dog and a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon. This time, he had another purpose...

"The two of you can partner with me on a mission entrusted by the guild, and believe me, the guild won't let you work for nothing." Newt explained the guild's structure to the young students in front of him, and then revealed his purpose for being here today.

Looking at the two young faces before him, Newt instantly remembered his own youth, when he was exactly like them, with the only difference being that they were two, and he didn't meet the woman until he was an adult...

Newt's face suddenly tensed when it came to payment: he had just realized that he had been working for Dumbledore for nothing...

Today was no exception; Dumbledore had asked him to team up with two juniors, to make them work, and he had come here angry. Newt felt truly bad. How was it possible that he couldn't say no to Dumbledore when he asked?

He looked sympathetically at Tom and Hermione, and felt that those two were his successors! When he had fought against Grindelwald, Dumbledore had sought out a tool named Newt. Now, in this chaotic world, had Dumbledore found someone to take on the important task?

Out of sympathy, his tone softened and his patience increased. He decided to give the two young ones a gift.

When Tom faced Newt's invitation, it was natural for him to accept. Newt, as Dumbledore's first tool, was a very powerful man. He wasn't an ordinary wizard, he was a sorcerer, a summoner. After all these years, I wonder how many magical creatures have expanded in Newt's case...

It's great to team up with such a cool guy! Although you can't level up quickly through quests, the experience itself is very valuable.

"The guild will receive a certain amount of points for completing the quest, which can be used to redeem things. Maybe your authority isn't enough, you can look at mine. Additionally, the good news is that, as a senior, I can lend you a thousand points!" His eyes softened, and he looked at Tom and Hermione as if they were his own grandchildren, Newt's grandson was also almost ready to go to Hogwarts.

Tom was delighted that the International Guild of Wizards was a guild of wizards from the Onza countries, knowing that money makes the world go round and not allowing wizards from all countries to "give" themselves away. If the Russian sorcerers were in charge, I'm afraid they would only be given a medal for completing a task - for sorcerers, aside from the Order of Merlin, the medal would almost be meaningless. How can you make a horse run and not give it grass? The days were gone when a couple of slogans were enough to make sorcerers give away their youth.

What made him even happier was that Newt was willing to lend him a thousand points.

The Guild distributes a certain number of points each month to different levels of members. Newt is a Class A member and receives a thousand points per month. Class B members receive 500 points, Class C members receive 100 points, and Class D members like Tom and Hermione don't receive any points. The goal was to give members an incentive to level up and accept missions.

Hermione frowned, always thinking of others. She had just realized a problem: "Mr. Scamander, you've lent us a thousand points at once, so you've spent all your points for the month... Will it affect you?"

Newt smiled cheerfully. "Don't worry, you don't have to complete missions and paycheck to earn points. There are other ways: assisting with alchemy, providing rare materials, writing spells, magic tips... everything can be exchanged for points."

During the long breeding years, Newt had saved many magical animal materials. Although he considered magical animals his friends, there were some insignificant materials that he exchanged for money. For example, the dung of many magical creatures was excellent fertilizer, and Newt made a lot of money by selling these derivatives for his personal benefit.

Hermione felt relieved to hear this and promised to repay Newt as soon as she had the points. Then she met with Tom to look at the redemption list.

It turned out that rank was the biggest restriction in the International Guild of Wizards. Tom's Class D notebook rank was so low that almost every page said [insufficient permission to view], and the final redemption list only had a few dozen lines. Compared to Newt's notebook, it was like the difference between a dictionary and a comic book.

Newt's notebook had several dozen pages! And Tom saw that some of the redemptions required specific missions, like the life-extension potion made by the Philosopher's Stone, which could extend life by almost three years, and required an S-rank mission plus 30,000 points to redeem.

So what? It's a life-extension potion! Before, there was nowhere to buy it, only Nicolas Flamel could make it in the entire magical world, but now there is a way to redeem it, and countless wizards will be motivated to complete S-rank missions for it. And the purpose of the Guild is fulfilled.

Of course, Tom and Hermione couldn't afford to redeem it. They went back to browsing the list, and the further they went, the cheaper the items were.

"A blind box of magical spells?" Hermione found a strange item. For 518 points, she could open a blind box and randomly choose five spells from it.